And all that you have been seeking outside and have not been finding will be found.

One who knows oneself has known all that is worth knowing.

[A new sannyasin says:

Well, I am very much of a hesitating person...

so, for instance, before I came to Poona I hesitated about it for about two weeks:

yes, no, yes, no.

I have that often, and I would like to change it

because sometimes I feel so hopeless about it.]

One has to learn a few things,

only then can the hesitation go.

First is:

there is nothing to lose.

Hesitation is there

because one is always afraid that one may lose something,

but one doesn’t have anything to lose!

Once this dawns in your consciousness,

that you have nothing to lose....

What have you got?

We never look into it.

We go on thinking that we have much to lose,

so we are hesitant about whether to do this

or not to do it, to be or not to be;

and we have nothing to lose!

So in your hesitation you are wasting time,

time that could have been lived,

time that could have been of immense joy.

Just see that you have nothing to lose,

then every risk is possible.

Hesitation means that you are afraid of taking a risk.

Maybe it is right,

maybe it is wrong.

There is nothing right and nothing wrong!

There are no things fixed as right and wrong.

One thing can be right in one situation and maybe wrong in another situation,

so don’t be too worried about right and wrong.

Rather than deciding whether it is right or wrong,

see the appropriateness of it,

whether it fits with the situation,

whether it is an adequate response to the situation.

Don’t be bothered about ultimate values of right and wrong;

there are none.

Every situation is momentary, and if you think of ultimate values you will be in trouble and you will go on missing life,

because by the time you decide maybe the train has already left!

[Osho recounts the story of the german philosopher, Emmanuel Kant, who having taken three years to weigh the pros and cons of marriage, finally accepted the proposal of the woman he loved, only to find her married and the mother of a child.]

... Three years thinking...

but that’s how many people are who go on hesitating, postponing, always afraid of making decisions.

Life is momentary and each moment needs its own decision.

If you wait, the moment is gone.

And even if you decide later on it is to no point.

But why does this always happen?

– because we have been taught about the ultimate values.

We have not been taught about the immediate adequateness, the appropriateness, of a certain response.

We have been told what is good and what is not good,

and what will take you to paradise

and what will take you to hell.

We have been told so many things,

but nobody has been telling us to respond to the present with our total hearts!